Abstract

This paper outlines our ongoing efforts to effectively integrate a parallel file system in a cloud environment. We investigate how a parallel file system (PFS) can be effectively integrated and provided as a service to cloud users running High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, and what would be the performance and security implications of such a service. A critical requirement of running today's dataintensive HPC applications is the availability of a parallel high performance storage system. The objectives of our work are two-fold: first, to identify and evaluate the possible ways to deploy a PFS in a cloud infrastructure, and second, to design a framework to provide the PFS as a service inside a cloud-management framework which would allow users to provision and configure PFS storage dynamically and securely, in much the same way they can provision instances and volumes. Initial results indicate that …

Date

November 10, 2012

Authors

Abhisek Pan, John Paul Walters, Vijay S Pai, Dong-In D Kang, Stephen P Crago

Conference

2012 SC Companion: High Performance Computing, Networking Storage and Analysis

Pages

753-759

Publisher

IEEE